Type and Weighting of Subjects
The following list contains an excerpt on the type and weighting of subjects (supplemented at the 397th meeting of the Executive Board on April 18, 2024) decided and approved by the Executive Board in its 393rd meeting on February 22, 2024 for the selection decision in admission restricted undergraduate degree programs.
In the selection decision, the result of the higher education entrance qualification (HZB) is weighted at 60% (average grade or score) and the best grades of the last four school semesters in two subjects shown in the higher education entrance qualification are weighted at 20% each according to the following table (§ 3 of the General Regulations on the Selection Procedure for the Allocation of Study Spots in Undergraduate Degree Programs).
The following grading table is used as a basis:
| Points | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade | 0,7 | 1,0 | 1,3 | 1,7 | 2,0 | 2,3 | 2,7 | 3,0 | 3,3 | 3,7 | 4,0 | 4,3 | 4,7 | 5,0 | 5,3 | 6,0 |
The subjects listed here each count for 20%:
| Schools | Degree Programs/Subject | School Subject | School Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Educational and Cultural Studies | General Knowledge/ SP1 Work-Economy | German | Politics-Economics2or English |
| General Knowledge/SP1 Biology | German | Biology | |
| General Knowledge/SP1 Geography | German | Geography | |
| General Knowledge/SP1 History | German | History | |
| General Knowledge/SP1 Physics | German | Physics | |
| General Knowledge/SP1 Politics | German | Politics-Economics2 or English | |
| Social Education | German | Pedagogy or Politics-Economics2 | |
| Sports | German | Sports | |
| Linguistics and Literature | German Studies | German | Foreign Language |
| Law | First State Examination in Law | German | Mathematics |
1SP = focus
2Equivalent school subjects in other federal states for politics and economics
- Lower Saxony: Politics and Economics (Politics; Law; Economics)
- Baden-Württemberg: Social Studies; Economics (only as an optional subject, except for vocational grammar schools: vocational business school, technical grammar school, home economics grammar school)
- Bavaria: Social Studies; Economics and Law
- Berlin: Political World Studies
- Brandenburg: Political Education
- Bremen: Politics; Law; Sociology; Economics
- Hamburg: Social Studies; Economics
- Hesse: Politics and Economics; PoWi
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Social Studies
- North Rhine-Westphalia: Social Sciences; Law
- Rhineland-Palatinate: Social Studies (together with History and Geography forms the subject of Social Studies)
- Saarland: Politics (in the qualification phase: with a fixed proportion of History)
- Saxony: Social Studies/Legal Education/Economics
- Saxony-Anhalt: Social Studies; Law; Economics
- Schleswig-Holstein: Economics/Politics
- Thuringia: Social Studies, Economics and Law (Thuringia)